E.g. for x86_64, previously each symbol's thunk was 87 bytes. Now
there's a 12 byte thunk per symbol, plus a shared 83 byte tail
function.
This is similar to what both MS link.exe and GNU tools do for
delay imports.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64288
llvm-svn: 365823
This patch does the same thing as r365595 to other subdirectories,
which completes the naming style change for the entire lld directory.
With this, the naming style conversion is complete for lld.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64473
llvm-svn: 365730
to reflect the new license.
We understand that people may be surprised that we're moving the header
entirely to discuss the new license. We checked this carefully with the
Foundation's lawyer and we believe this is the correct approach.
Essentially, all code in the project is now made available by the LLVM
project under our new license, so you will see that the license headers
include that license only. Some of our contributors have contributed
code under our old license, and accordingly, we have retained a copy of
our old license notice in the top-level files in each project and
repository.
llvm-svn: 351636
GNU binutils import libraries aren't the same kind of short import
libraries as link.exe and LLD produce, but are a plain static library
containing .idata section chunks. MSVC link.exe can successfully link
to them.
In order for imports from GNU import libraries to mix properly with the
normal import chunks, the chunks from the existing mechanism needs to
be added into named sections like .idata$2.
These GNU import libraries consist of one header object, a number of
object files, one for each imported function/variable, and one trailer.
Within the import libraries, the object files are ordered alphabetically
in this order. The chunks stemming from these libraries have to be
grouped by what library they originate from and sorted, to make sure
the section chunks for headers and trailers for the lists are ordered
as intended. This is done on all sections named .idata$*, before adding
the synthesized chunks to them.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D38513
llvm-svn: 342777
Previously, LLD-produced executables had IAT (Import Address Table) and
ILT (Import Lookup Table) as separate chunks of data, although their
contents are identical. My interpretation of the COFF spec when I wrote
the COFF linker is that they need to be separate tables even though they
are the same.
But Peter found that the Windows loader is fine with executables in
which IAT and ILT are merged. This is a patch to merge IAT and ILT.
I confirmed that an lld-link self-hosted with this patch works fine.
Fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33064
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33326
llvm-svn: 303374
The import lists are already binned by DLL name, so there's no need to
deduplicate here.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33330
llvm-svn: 303371
We've been using make<> to allocate new objects in ELF. We have
the same function in COFF, but we didn't use it widely due to
negligence. This patch uses the function in COFF to close the gap
between ELF and COFF.
llvm-svn: 303357
In many places we assumed that is64() means AMD64 and i386 otherwise.
This assumption is not sound because Windows also supports ARM.
The linker doesn't support ARM yet, but this is a first step.
llvm-svn: 243188
There were a few issues with the previous delay-import tables.
- "Attribute" field should have been 1 instead of 0.
(I don't know the meaning of this field, though.)
- LEA and CALL operands had wrong addresses.
- Address tables are in .didat (which is read-only).
They should have been in .data.
llvm-svn: 240837
DLLs are usually resolved at process startup, but you can
delay-load them by passing /delayload option to the linker.
If a /delayload is specified, the linker has to create data
which is similar to regular import table.
One notable difference is that the pointers in a delay-load
import table are originally pointing to thunks that resolves
themselves. Each thunk loads a DLL, resolve its name, and then
overwrites the pointer with the result so that subsequent
function calls directly call a desired function. The linker
has to emit thunks.
llvm-svn: 240250
DLL files are in the same format as executables but they have export tables.
The format of the export table is described in PE/COFF spec section 5.3.
A new class, EdataContents, takes care of creating chunks for export tables.
What we need to do is to parse command line flags for dllexports, and then
instantiate the class to create chunks. For the writer, export table chunks
are opaque data -- it just add chunks to .edata section.
llvm-svn: 239869
Martin Storsjo